Award-winning Ekó Botanicals Founder and Formulator Apinke Efiong has at all times had a deep love for botanicals. Impressed by her nice grandfather, a botanist at Kew Gardens in London, UK, over 100 years in the past, and having run a floral enterprise from her house nation of Nigeria, she felt therapeutic crops have been going to be central to her future, however she didn’t know precisely how.
When the Covid lockdown started, she determined to shut her floral enterprise in Nigeria and focus on her monetary consultancy work in England. Discovering herself uninspired and dealing from house, she set about brainstorming a brand new starting for herself. Apinke needed to create one thing that would marry her African and British heritage. Having had her personal ongoing pores and skin challenges as she reached her 40s, she felt that creating natural, botanical-rich merchandise for menopausal pores and skin was her future.
When Apinke started her natural skincare journey, she seemed for an acceptable formulation course and got here throughout Components Botanica. She noticed what number of different graduates of the College had advanced their goals to grow to be profitable skincare entrepreneurs and instantly felt at at house. Components Botanica grew to become an unimaginable useful resource for Apinke, as too was the College’s neighborhood of like-minded formulators and entrepreneurs which was readily available to assist her be taught and develop her skincare enterprise.
On finishing her Diploma in Natural Skincare Formulation, Alpinke set about creating a multi-functional line of merchandise to deep cleanse, hydrate and replenish maturing pores and skin. Her vary included nutrient-dense formulations together with the meditative ritual of utility and facial therapeutic massage
Apinke had suffered for years with numerous pores and skin situations associated to her pores and skin sort, so she had a deep need to create merchandise that may enhance the looks, tone and really feel of dry, hyper-pigmented, menopausal pores and skin in these over the age of 35. She experimented with dozens of pure and natural botanicals, extracts and oils designed particularly to clean, rehydrate and nourish the pores and skin. In 2022, she launched her three-product line to rave opinions and has loved success ever since.
In her personal phrases, formulation has modified Alpike’s life. Listening to from purchasers who’ve skilled outstanding modifications of their pores and skin, constructive opinions on social and conventional media, successful awards and assembly great individuals are the most important compliments and highlights of every day at EKÓ Botanicals. “With the ability to develop a botanically-based natural and sustainable magnificence enterprise that I’m very happy with is one thing I’d suggest to anybody.”
Interview highlights embody:
Apinke’s need to mix her love for botanicals together with her Nigerian and British heritage;
Why she selected to concentrate on menopausal pores and skin issues;
The worth of Components Botanica and its in depth community of sources; and
How the Components Botanica neighborhood members and their tales have been key to her development and inspiration.
About Ekó Botanicals
Apinke sources one of the best botanical elements from Nigeria and the UK, selecting natural and wild-grown elements at any time when attainable. Every Ekó Botanicals’ product derives inspiration from highly effective historical African warrior queens, together with the Queen of Sheba and Nefertiti, and remembers the rituals and botanicals these figures deployed 1000’s of years in the past to create clear and radiant pores and skin. Ekó Botanicals merchandise mirror historical heritage and knowledge, however are rooted firmly in as we speak’s science.
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Liz is Components Botanica’s Content material Coordinator and joined our staff in August 2020. Liz labored as an expert blogger, journalist and web site developer for a few years and was additionally a part of the Components Botanica scholar neighborhood. Learn extra in regards to the Components Botanica Group.